The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope has inched closer to operation after a South Africa-led consortium completed one of the final pre-construction tests.
SKA South Africa announced the completion on 10 July. The SKA—so named because its dishes will have a combined receiving area of one square kilometre—will be built in Australia and South Africa.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, together with partners the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia and the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Netherlands, began their assembly, integration and verification (AIV) work on the SKA in 2013.
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